Georg Matthaeus Merklin

Jörg "Georg" Merklin was born 1603 in Wimpfen, Hesse, Germany; died 1686 in Bonfeld, Heilbronn, Baden-Württemberg, Germany; he was buried December 16, 1686 at age 83. Georg married Eva about 1646, born in 1617; died March 13, 1690 in Bonfeld, Germany.

Georg moved from the District of Wimpfen, to Bonfeld, District of Heilbronn in Württemberg, Germany after one of the longest and most destructive conflicts in European history; the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648),[1] when entire regions were denuded by foraging armies. Initially, it was fought largely as a religious war between Protestants and Catholics in the Holy Roman Empire.

The period from 1621–1625, the "Palatinate phase" of the Thirty Years' War, consisted mostly of sieges conducted by the Spanish army that left the Palatinate in the hands of the Spanish. Georg Fredrick, Margrave of Baden-Durlach lost the Battle of Wimpfen (see painting, "Battle of Wimpfen") fighting against the Spanish on May 6, 1622, when the combined Spanish army of Field Marshal t'Serclaes van Tilly and General Fernández de Córdoba attacked Wimpfen, the District where Jörg Merklin was living.

   The Spanish army then captured the city of Heidelberg on September 19, 1622 following an eleven-week siege. Christian the Younger of Brunswick lost the Battle of Stadtlohn where 13,000 out of his army of 15,000 were lost, including fifty of his high-ranking officers. So great was the devastation brought about by the war that estimates put the reduction of population in the German states at about 25% to 40%. Some regions were affected much more than others. Württemberg lost three-quarters of its population during the war. Together with the complete surrender of Bohemia in 1623, virtually all resistance in Germany ended. 

In 1654 Jörg Merklin became a citizen of Bonfeld. In the church book of Bonfeld, District of Heilbronn, Kingdom of Württemberg, and in the District of Wimpfen, Grand Duchy of Hesse, Germany, the following is found concerning Jörg and Eva Merklin and their children.

   Names of [Merkle] Family members used in the Profiles of Jörg and Eva Merklin align with the names used in "Stammtafel der familie Merkle; nach den Kirchenbüchern zu Bonfeld, Oberamts Heilbronn, königreich Württemberg, und denen zu Wimpfen, grossherzogtum Hessen (1886)". 

   (see diagram, Family Tree for Jörg Merklin) 

Sources

   Stammtafel der familie Merkle (German) 

http://archive.org/details/stammtafelderfam00mark

This Merkle Family Tree was published by H.S. Dotterer as a Supplement to his 1884 book. (see two forward page images)

   Descendants of Jacob Markley of Skippack, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania 

http://archive.org/details/descendantsofjac00dott

   WikiTree profile Merckle-22 created through the import of Lois for WikiTree.ged by Kay Haden on Oct 10, 2011. Prior to import, this record was last changed 4 May 2003. Jorg Merckle [Merckle-22] adopted by Jon Cunnyngham on Dec 21, 2012. Created Jörg Merklin [Merklin-1] on Dec 22, 2012. Merged Merckle-22 into Merklin-1. See the Changes page for edit details. 

   Source: S89 Abbreviation: Palatine Families of New York Title: Henry Z. Jones, Jr., The Palatine Families of New York: A Study of the German Immigrants Who Arrived in Colonial New York in 1710 (Universal City, CA 1985) Note: Copies in my file sent by Hunterdon NJ Historical Society. Also in Birmingham Library. Repository: #R1 Call Number: F130 .P2 J66 Page: p.353-355

   Repository: R1 Name: My Files Address:

   Source: S98 Abbreviation: German Origins of Jost Hite Title: Henry Z. Jones, Jr., Ralph Connor and Klaus Wust, German Origins of Jost Hite, Virginia Pioneer (Shenandoah History; Edinburg VA; 1979) Note: Copy of book owned by Hank Adams. Repository: #R1 

1623 in Bonfield, Wurttemburg, Germany Death: 1668 in Bonfield, Wurttemburg, Germany

JORG (GEORGE) MERKLIN, WAS THE EARLIEST KNOWN ANCESTOR OF THE MARKLEY FAMILY OF PENNSYLVANIA. HE WAS A NATIVE OF THE DISTRICT OF WIMPFEN, IN THE GRAND DUCHY OF HESSE, GERMANY. HE WAS BORN ABOUT 1620-1622; HIS WIFE'S NAME WAS EVA. THAT IS ALL WE KNOW OF HER AT THIS TIME. 

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GEDCOM Note

<p><Historie></p><p><p>um 1634 in Bonfeld eingewandert; Bürger zu Bonfeld (1652; 36 Jahre lang, (nach Frau Rosl Müller (1679) nur 22 Jahre lang)</p><p>Eintrag im Totenbuch: nach 32 jahren Bürgerschaft ist dieser Mann am 16. Dez. 1686 mit 83 Jahren verstorben (woher zugezogen ist im Kirchenbuch nicht vermerktl)